Google Assistant Retreats on Conversational Actions with Firstenberg, Tucker, and Schwartz - Voicebot Podcast Ep 258

Google announced it will be sunsetting support for third-party
conversational actions–the voice apps that work with Google
Assistant–in June 2023. It decided there was no point in
maintaining a separate app store just for voice and it is
encouraging conversational action developers to port their
experiences over to Android apps.


This special edition of the Voicebot Podcast showcases Allen
Firstenberg and Mark Tucker, both active developers of
conversational actions and other voice app experiences.
Firstenberg is a GDE for Google Assistant and Mark Tucker is an
Alexa Champion so both have some notable accomplishments in the
space. They are both also well known in the voice developer
community in part from their Two Voice Devs podcast and YouTube
show.


We discuss the impact on the Google Assistant and Alexa
ecosystems and how this will shape the future of voice
assistants.